Recreation in the Renaissance : Attitudes Towards Leisure and Pastimes in European Culture, c.1425-1675 (Early Modern History: Society and Culture)

In Renaissance Europe, when 'leisure classes' used social gathering to define civility and the commercialization of leisure was beginning, the human need for recreation became a cultural topos. the spectrum of leisure activities, often gender-specific or appropriate to particular social groups; and the visual representation of leisure.